Improvement in combination-tool



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@anni @ittica GEoRGE w. GREGORY,

OF NEW YORK, 4N. Y.

' Leners .Patent No. 102,677, ma May 3, 1ero.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINATION-TOOL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part bf thesame 1, GEORGE W. GREGORY, afNewYork city, New York, hareinvented a newand useful Improvement in a Combination-Tool, of which the following isa Figures 3, 4, 5, are views of a'modified form of toolholder.

A is a hammer-head, in this instance shaped as an ordinaryriveting-hammer, but it may be constructed as an -ordinary tack-hammer.

B is the hammer-handle hollowed out, forming a chamber, C, for thereception of tools b b, which may consist of small -gouges, chisels,saws, gmlets, ,bradawls, screw-drivers, and tack-claws.

lThe opening into the chambers is, in this instance,

fiom 'the side, and such opening is covered with-a steel or wood strip,scaled as a rule, and one end of the strip is attened for ascrew-driver. 'This'strip may be secured in place in ,any suitable way.

On the end of the handle I place a tool-holder, D, composed of twopieces, d d', one portion, d, serving the purpose of a ferrule for theend ot' the handle, and it is also provided with a tubular-threadedprojection, x, which is slotted transversely, and throughout its length,so as to form such tubular projection into .two or four projections. Iintend making such projection conical toward itsend, so that, when atool, b, is placed between such projection, and the nut d, screwedthereon, they will be compressed, and gripe and hold such tool'frmly.

The piece ll may be provided with a milled nut, to assist in turning itup tightly.

In fig.' a tool is shown as secured in the holder, y

but broken ofi' at its end.

In iig.2,'the tool isremoved from the end of they Figs. 4 and 5 show amodified. forrnv of holder, the part F being adapted to screw on thebendle, and f is the nipple, to screw over the projections ffl When atack-hammer is used, it may be magnetized.

The w'ood of the handle may b'e astamped in gnres for a rule, or thehandle may be made of metal, or

part metal and part wood. Y

By using the parts'represented in figs. 34 5, I may make. the handle inone piece, and bore it from the end farthest from the hammer, for adistance suicient to form -a suitable space to receive the tools,` andthen screw the part F on and on the handle, to v gain access to thetools. y

The handlemight be made oi' a tubeof metal.

By combining the tool-holder with the ohambered hammer-handle, I amenabled to produce a very useful improvement, and adapted to meet vmanywants.

I am aware that sets of small tools have been held in handles similar toawl-handles, but such I de not claim; and I :un also aware that ascrew-driver has been permanently attached to a hamme'rhandle.

Having described my invention, I claim- Y The implement hereindescribed, composed of the hammer, chambered-handle, and tool-holder,when constructed and arranged substantially in the manner

